4 Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, May 5th, 19S3


Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified)


Do you recall this rail line ?


WAS there once a railway line to Ribchester?


The question arises


from a bill for £6 5s. which Dr W. E. Musson, of Mayfield, Waddington Road, Clitheroe, sent to Mr Hitchen stationmas- ter, Ribchester, at Christ­ mas 1869.


Mr Hitchen was station m a s te r at Wilpshire which, as most locals will know, was styled Wilp­ shire (for Ribchester).


The likelihood is that


grandfather of Mr Charles Musson, of Pimlico Road, to whom the bill has been g iv en by Mr Robert Jones, headmaster of Pendle Junior School.


Dr Musson was the


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There were not many


doctors in Clitheroe in the 1860s and Dr William Edward Musson was gen­ erally known as Th’owd Doctor, probably to dis­ tinguish him from his son Dr Alfred William Musson


who succeeded him and was Mr Musson’s father.


Dr W. E. Musson was


born in 1831. He died in Clitheroe in 1917 at the age of 86 and was buried at Clitheroe Cemetery.


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his grandfather became a member of the Royal Col­ lege of Surgeons at St T h om a s ’s H o sp i ta l , London, in 1852, and four years later he came into partnership with Dr Gar- stang at Clitheroe.


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complished musician with proficiency in many in­ struments of the orchest- ra which he conducted. His wide knowledge of


Dr Musson was an ac­


round & about -


. gardening in all its as­ pects gained more than a local reputation.


Like most gentlemen of


the period he was a keen horseman and rode to the Ribblesdale Hounds until he was 80.


“I well remember him


riding his hunter ‘Mouse’ which had to double as a mount in the practice when making country visits for which the trap was unsuitable,” says Mr Musson.


Dr Musson married


S usannah C a th e r in e Robinson, the e ld es t daughter of Dixon and Matilda Robinson of Clitheroe Castle. Dr Musson and his wife lived most of their life at “May- field” and had six sons and six daughters.


Nothing but


kindness AN elderly German is seeking a Ribble Valley family who befriended him while he was in a prisoner-of-war camp near Gisbura during 1946-47. News of the quest is


contained in a letter to the Advertiser and Times from a Sheffield couple, who met the ex-prisoner while staying in a Rhine­ land guest house recently. He told the English


pair that he had received “nothing but kindness” from Nancy, Rex and Val­ erie Anderson and wanted to thank them a fter nearly 40 years. Their former friend is


Herr Josef Rick, of 5308 Rheinback-Wormersdorf, Wormersdorferstrasse 38, West Germany.


Opening


its doors STONYHURST College will open its doors to the general public on Sunday for the first time in three years.


private parties are al-, lowed inside the historic building, but during the


Normally only small


open day visitors will be able to walk through the fam ily house of the Shireburns and other areas of the school.


paintings and historic ves­ tments will be on show and refreshments will be served.


Many religious objects, Proceeds from the open


day will go towards Col­ lege funds, including the boys’ work with voluntary services for the hand­ icapped.


The college will be open


between 1-30 and 5 p.m., admission being £1 for adults and 50p for chil­ dren and senior citizens.


Youth ideas sought


YOUNG people with ideas to help the commun­ ity could qualify for cash aid from the Royal Jubilee Trusts.


The Trusts, which last


year provided over £lm. for youth projects, aim to put resources into the hands of young people with the minimum amount of formality.


Applicants must demon­


strate that their project enables young people under the age of 25 to help others.


A Lancashire Advisory


Group has been set up to explain the workings of the Trust to local organ­ isations and to advise on the distribution of funds.


group are Mr Stefan Czarnogrebel, of Trinity Youth Club, who lives at Peel Street, Clitheroe, and Mr Russell Menzies, of Trinity Youth and Community Centre, who lives in Queensway, Wad­ dington.


Local people in the


I HAVE always been an admirer of the Scout and Guide movements and the dedicated people who spend so much of their free time in the or­ ganising and administ­ ration of the various companies. The work they do in the


Still, their intentions were good Whalley Window


than valuable, as I can testify from personal‘ex­ perience. Thus, when a local


training and worthwhile recreational pursuits of boys and girls is more


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job for my boys-to do. Can they tidy up .the


Scoutmaster approached the officials of his church and said, “Look here. I want a really worthwhile


at the rear of the church there is a plot of land, the cultivation of which is shared by certain adult members of the congrega­ tion. Ardent horticultur­ ists all, it is there they grow the family veget- ■ ables and a variety of soft


are like everybody else and have a living' to earn, even when their lads have a half-term holiday, off he went to his daily toil. Now it so happens that


approval, the Scoutmaster went to work; assembled his lads and.told them ex­ actly what to do. “Make a real good job of it,” he said. “Get rid of all the rubbish and litter, pull up all the weeds and leave it all neat and tidy.” Then, as Scoutmasters


church grounds and sur­ rounding gardens?” his suggestion was taken up with alacrity and warm approval. “A • splendid idea,” he was told. “Go right ahead!” Aimed with this official


fruits, a laudable occupa­ tion.


thusiastic Scouts set to work, determined to win their leader’s approval. Litter was gathered, the area completely weeded. Anything dead — twigs, branches, leaves — was immediately consigned to the rubbish dump. So, as it later transpired, were


one or two other things. A splendid job; jolly


well done. A credit to the boys. They straightened themselves up,. cleaned their tools, cleaned them­ selves (well, perhaps not one or two spots behind the ears or at the back of the neck) and looked at th e now m e t icu lo u s garden. They congratulated


themselves (and each other) and could hardly suppress a few smiles of sa t is fa c t ion .' “That’ll please the old man,” they thought. “He can’t comp­ lain about that.” In due course the


Scoutmaster returned and made a tour of inspection and he ivas pleased — for a few minutes. “A grand lot of lads,” he thought. “Great kids.” Then he looked a little more close­ ly . Where w e r e Dr


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I HAVE just completed the survey of local rookeries for the 21st annual census organised by the East Lancashire Ornithologists’ Club. The total area covered by the census is that


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itself (Barraclough, ■ Barrow Gardens, High Moor, Horrocksford, Pendleton . Hall and Prim­ rose) have shown a decline over the last two years. From a. breeding population of 193 pairs in


1981, there was a 5.7% decrease to 182 pairs in 1982; this was not entirely unexpected after the severe winter of 1981/82. However, the further steep fall of 19.8% to


only 146 pairs this year is difficult to explainl It even looks as if the High Moor rookery may have been abandoned. Obviously, the results from such a. small


number of rookeries in just one area may not be an accurate-reflection of the situation in


; East Lancashire, as a whole; this will have to await • the analysis of returns; from several


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. observers throughout the region. / The large rookery at Simonstone,. at present just outside the Ribble Valley, has shown a very; disturbing 27% fall this year, but to balance this," the two' largest rookeries in the Kibble Valley district itself, at Whitewell and Withgill, seem to have maintained, their ...numbers.


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The largest increase I-could find is just six : extra nests.at Whalley Abbey.


: - A , TONY COOPER


of sheet 95 of the old series lin. O.S. map. Counting the number of nest towards the end of April, just before the trees come into leaf, gives the size of the breeding population. The six rookeries in and around Clitheroe .


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Lancashire night out


THE Friends of Barrow School Association is to hold its first event, a Lan­ cashire evening, on May 20th. The social function is


THE fund towards a


new slide for St Paul’s Playgroup, Low Moor, was given a £55 boost from the proceeds of a coffee morning, held in the church hall.


Stalls selling home­


aimed at strengthening ties between the school and the three villages it serves, Barrow, Wiswell and Pendleton. The evening will start


at 7-30 p.m. with Morris dancing, followed by a sing-song and gradely Lancashire ditties per­ formed by Folk Five, of Brierfield. There will be a potato pie supper. Tickets, which are li­


mited, are available from the school.


made cak e s , to y s , books and records were manned by play­


group mums, there was a tombola and waf­ fles were on sale.


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Blank’s raspberry canes, Mr Blanker’s currant bushes, Mr So-and-so’s special strawberries?


dump told him. “But they looked dead, proper dead. We got rid of them,” the boys explained.


that they. were very far from d ead . A n o th e r couple of months or so and they would be burst­ ing with vibrant life.


The truth is, of course,


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Scoutmaster went off to make a series of rather difficult telephone calls. What is .that old saying about the road to some­ where or other being paved with good inten­ tions? For the moment my memory fails me.


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